Late Tuesday night, the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball announced they would post Tanaka and allow him to come to Major League Baseball, according to a report in Japan’s Sankei Sports and Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times. The announcement, which Sankei says came directly from Rakuten’s president, Yozo Tachibana, means that all 30 MLB teams will have an opportunity to bid on and sign Tanaka, regarded to be one of the top free-agent pitchers on the market.